20731. Misbranding of Silver Pine Healing oil.     U. S. v. 48 Bottles of Silver
Pine   Healing   Oil.    Default   decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture, 
and destruction.     (F. & D. no. 28684.    Sample no. 7162-A.)
Examination of the drug preparation, Silver Pine Healing oil, disclosed 
that it contained no ingredient or combination of ingredients capable of 
producing certain curative and therapeutic effects claimed on the bottle and 
carton labels and in a circular shipped with the article.
On or about August 16, 1932, the United States attorney for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture,
filed in the District Court of the United States a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 48 bottles of Silver Pine Healing oil at New Orleans, La., 
alleging that the article had been shipped in interstate commerce on or about 
April 22, 1932, by the Vicksburg Chemical Co., from Vicksburg, Miss., to 
New Orleans, La., and charging misbranding in violation of the Food and 
Drugs Act as amended. The article was labeled in part: " Silver Pine Healing 
Oil * * * Prepared only by International Stock Feed Co., Minneapolis, 
Minn."
Analysis of a sample of the article by this Department showed that it 
consisted essentially of an empyreumatic oil such as tar oil, and turpentine oil.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was misbranded in that the fol- 
lowing statements in the labeling, regarding the curative or therapeutic effects 
of the article, were false and fraudulent: (Bottle) "Healing * * * Mus- 
cular Rheumatism * * * Injuries by nails, Etc. * * * Purify * * * 
Sore. * * * Heal"; (carton) "Healing * * * For Human Use 
For * * * Sores, Ulcers, All Flesh Wounds, External Inflammation, Swel- 
lings, Lame Back, Injuries Made by Nails, and other Conditions * * * Pur- 
ify, * * * Heal. * * * And in other cases where the skin is brok- 
en. * * * For Animal Use * * * Sores, All Flesh Wounds, External 
Inflammations, * * * Swellings, * * * Injuries made by nails, * * * 
Purify the Wound or Sore and Heal * * * Healing"; (circular) "Heal- 
ing * * * as a healer. * * * Healing * * * or other Flesh 
Wounds— * * * Old Sores, etc. * * * Muscular Rheumatism, Sore 
Throat, etc.— * * * Healing * * * Inflammation, * * * Muscular 
Rheumatism, etc. * * * Injuries Made by Nails— * * * For Human 
Use * * * Healing * * * For * * * Sores, * * * Injuries 
made by nails or other Flesh Wounds, Muscular Rheumatism, etc. * * * 
Healing."
On September 27, 1932, no claimant having appeared for the property, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered 
by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
R. G. TUGWEIX, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.